Saturday | 10 January, 2009

Stories by: Byron Kaye

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    E-mail porn: it's all in the skin 16/10/2000 12:01:01

    Skin, or rather its tones, is the key to tracing graphic pornography in e-mail, says pornography-scanning software marketeer Lindsay Durbin. According to Durbin, product marketing manager for Content Technologies, supplier of e-mail porn-detection add-on Pornsweeper, the higher the percentage of skin colour in a graphic e-mail attachment, the higher the chance that the attachment contains an image of a naked person.
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    New Encryption Standard Won't Blow the Budget: PwC 10/10/2000 12:01:01

    Existing data encryption standards have been officially superseded at US government level, but it won't mean another multimillion-dollar software payout for businesses.
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    Demise of DES won't blow the budget: PwC 09/10/2000 12:01:01

    Existing data encryption standards have been officially superseded at US government level, but it won't mean another multimillion-dollar software payout for businesses. After a three-year worldwide competition, the US Commerce Department announced the Rijndael encryption algorithm from Belgium has been selected as the USA's new Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
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    Apples for teacher fall to competition: Cube perceived as too big for small users, too small for big users 09/10/2000 12:01:01

    Confused product placement, together with decreasing marketshare in the coveted education sector, and post-GST business burnout are all likely contributors to Apple's disappointing third-quarter earnings, says one analyst firm. The PC manufacturer said it would check in with earnings of $US110 million ($200 million) globally for Q3 2000 - around two-thirds of that expected for the period.
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    Austrade lines up stands for CeBIT: Exhibition a sellout with six months to go 09/10/2000 12:01:01

    Places at next year's CeBIT summit have all but disappeared and Australian technology businesses are being advised to gather under one national umbrella. The global technology showcase, to be held in Hannover, Germany, in March 2001, already has a global waiting list of more than 160 companies. Some 7500 companies have already secured places at the exhibition, according to the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade).
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    AltaVista.com gets au-ginised 09/10/2000 12:01:01

    AltaVista has launched its Australian Web search site, but will run its local operation entirely on servers housed in the UK for the first month of operation. According to international business development director Martin Keogh, networking connectivity problems between the UK and Australia caused the search engine company to postpone its foray onto local shores.
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    ASP slow to take off in Australia 09/10/2000 12:01:01

    The local ASP (application service provider) market is yet to exceed the "meagre" proportions of its first stages, according to industry analyst IDC. However, it doesn't mean ASP is dead, says the researcher. According to a recent report, the ASP services market in Australia was worth less than $8 million in 1999. The report said local ASPs faced unexpected challenges that had stunted the growth of the market in general.
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    Austrade Lines Up Stands for CeBIT 05/10/2000 12:01:01

    Places at next year's CeBIT summit have all but disappeared and Australian technology businesses are being advised to gather under one national umbrella.
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    Apples for Teacher Cut by Competition 04/10/2000 12:01:01

    Confused product placement, decreasing marketshare in the coveted education sector, and post-GST business burnout are all likely contributors to Apple's disappointing third-quarter earnings, says one analyst.
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    DIMA deals to Olympics 18/09/2000 12:01:01

    The Olympics have so far had a minimal impact on the Department of Immigration's Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) system, according to the department.
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    E-commerce having no effect on business: PwC 18/09/2000 12:01:01

    E-commerce has had a "moderate" or "non-existent" impact on business according to almost 80 per cent of corporate CEOs in the Asia-Pacific who participated in a Pricewaterhouse-Coopers survey. The corporate consultancy said only around 20 per cent of CEOs acknowledged "any kind of impact" of e-commerce on their business.
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